Fidelis shy

Fidelis Scheu (born May 30, 1780 in Donaueschingen , † July 10, 1830 in Marienbad ) was a German-Bohemian physician , balneologist and specialist writer .

Life

Scheu's father was a civil servant on the estates of the Prince von Fürstenberg , first in Donaueschingen in Baden-Württemberg, and later in Northern Bohemia . After studying philosophy and medicine at Charles University in Prague and the University of Vienna, Fidelis received his doctorate in medicine in Prague in 1807. He then worked as a city ​​physician on the Lesser Town in Prague and was a city doctor in Rumburg in 1813 .

In 1820 he became the successor of Johann Joseph Nehr (1757-1820) as a monastery doctor in the Premonstratensian Abbey of Stift Tepl and well and bath doctor in the monastery spa town of Marienbad . It was there that he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , with whom he remained friends until his death. From his on-site experience, he wrote a number of medical writings, some of which he published as books and some in medical journals such as Hufeland’s Journal .

Works

• About human predispositions to illness . Vienna 1821.
• My reflections on the effects of the medicinal springs in Marienbad and those of the drinking springs there , Prague 1821, 2nd edition 1825.
• About the chronic diseases of the male age, their prevention and cure . Leipzig 1826.
• The healing powers of Marienbad are represented by a series of disease stories . Eger ( Cheb ) 1830.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Shy, Fidelis . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, p. 239 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands . Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka, Volume III. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 633, with further references.
• Weinmann, Egerländer. Biographer. Lexicon, Vol. 3.